Famous Religion Quotes



Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

There is more religion in men’s science, than there is science in their religion.

Henry David Thoreau

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

Albert Einstein

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Charles Baudelaire

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Stendhal

Toleration is the best religion.

Victor Hugo

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Woodrow Wilson

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent van Gogh

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

David Hume

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s.

Mark Twain

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: 'Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.' Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Mark Twain

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D. H. Lawrence

Religions get lost as people do.

Franz Kafka

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Henri Bergson

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Cicero

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

Voltaire

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

Voltaire

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Thomas Jefferson

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